‘Vachan Prerna Din’ Celebration at Kaveri

 ‘Vachan Prerna Din' or Reading Day is celebrated on 15th October, every year to commemorate the birth anniversary of our revered former President Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam who loved reading and writing. This day is observed so that students would understand the importance of reading and will be encouraged and motivated to develop it as a hobby.

On account of this occasion, the college library arranged a guest lecture by Ms. Vrushali Dandawate (Librarian, AISSMS College of Engineering, Pune, and DOAJ Ambassador India) on Thursday, 15^th October 2020, at 12.30 p.m. on Google Meet virtual platform and YouTube Live.

 Mrs.Vrushali Dandawate guided the students on ‘How to make optimum utilization of Open Sources.’ She explained in detail about scholarly communication crises and also the gold route and green route of publishing one’s own research paper. She also discussed in detail about DOAJ (Directory of Open access journals) and its workflow. She also shed light on understanding Predatory Journals. She also gave information about various open access websites like Google Books, Open Textbook Library, CORE, Econbiz, IntechOpen, etc. and learning platforms like Swayam, NPTEL, Coursera etc.

She also shared important links of free reading materials with the students.  She gave information about open source software available for librarians for developing library website and institutional repositories. 

On this occasion, Dr. A.M. Agrawal Principal, Kaveri College addressed the students. He remembered the great work of Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam. He threw light on the continuation of education in this pandemic through online platform. He urged students to spend time in library. He said “wachal tar wachal”. Read, read and only read. He also recalled the children’s publications like Chandoba, Dharmayug etc.

Vice Principal Dr.Muckta Karmarkar, teaching and non-teaching staff members and students in large number attended the online session.

Ms.  Radhika Potdar student of T.Y.BA started the program by remembering Dr. Kalam’s  exemplary qualities.

 Mrs. Dhanashree Bhide, Librarian organized the session and proposed vote of thanks.